Guess I'll be doing (some of) Suptober this year, yay!!

Day 1: Harvest

hmmm what should Dean wear to hunt demons tonight?

dean: a-

dean: please, a date?? you are completely off your bird

dean: i mean-

We got Charlie Bradbury and Willow Rosenberg aka the nerdy red headed lesbians.

Then we have Dean Winchester and Buffy Summers aka the funny and sarcastic monster hunting bisexuals with a younger sibling (who I also adore) they would do anything for.

darla and angel x vampire

i wrote a little something to go with this edit, and i don't really have anywhere else to share it, so i thought i'd put it here and see how i like doing stuff like this on here

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darla and angel: control and influence

a take i’ve seen thrown around in this fandom quite a bit is one that implies that angel is a large reason why spike was an ‘evil’ vampire; that spike learned everything from angel, and was only ever ‘bad’ to earn angels approval. to the point where i have seen suggestions that everything evil that spike did is all largely at the fault of angel. and by the logic of that take, it can be said everything angel ever did that was evil is at the fault of darla. 

from the moment angel is sired, darla provides him guidance and controls a large part of his vampiric existence. when he rises, she is there awaiting him, and as he makes his first kill in the graveyard, he looks to her for approval and reassurance that he is doing the right thing, to which she smiles and nods, and so it begins. after he murders his family, darla finds him in his old home and approves of what he has done but not without reminding him of how his father will always have defeated him, even if angelus ultimately killed him (ats 1x15). the power dynamic between the two is reminiscent of a mother and her son, and the narrative presents it to the audience as such a relationship through a myriad of metaphors and their overall dynamic.

darla may be the one who stands in the shadows behind angelus and his reign of terror, but she has a significant amount of control over him that goes rather unnoticed. it is darla who picks out drusilla for angelus and gives him the plan to torture her, and it is darla who kidnaps the romani girl for him. and thus she kicks off the catalyst of events that leads to angelus regaining his soul. a soul to which darla reacts with horror to, and forces angelus to leave. a common pattern in their relationship is her leaving angelus whenever it suits or betters her (see ats 1x18, 2x09, 5x8). reinforcing that she is the one who holds control over their relationship, and angelus who becomes almost lost when she isn’t around.